Sometimes running for Congress is a four-year strategy in terms of getting out there and building a network.

When you hear the party that glorified Occupy Wall Street blast success; when you hear them minimize the genius of the men and women who make jobs out of nothing, is that what you teach your children about work?

The repeal of racist language in the Constitution of Alabama was and still is a necessary step in the state's ability to progress.

We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

Wearing a Democratic label no longer matches what I know about my country and its possibilities.

Mitt Romney, happens to have the exact skill set that the next president's going to require.

This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.